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Ackley BridgeChannel 4, 8pm“It’s not what you do, it’s what you’re seen to do that matters around here.” Schoolgirl Nas (the excellent Amy-Leigh Hickman) quickly sets the scene for the first episode in a well-deserved second series — at double the length — for Channel 4’s irrepressibly lively drama documenting integration (and the lack of it) in a Yorkshire mill town and the academy at its heart. The latter, lest we forget, was formed when a predominantly white British and predominantly Asian school were merged, a seductive if unlikely premise that more or less guarantees the show will never run dry of dramatic potential. And so it proves. Nas, out only to her best friend (Poppy Lee Friar), decides to…

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